Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

Self-pity is the simplest luxury.